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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye, Ellen Hillbom, Sascha Klocke   +2 more
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Reanimating the sacrifice zone: Mechanisms of harm and healing in Yellowknife. [PDF]

Ambio
Barusevicius A, Garbis Z, Silber H, Orttung RW.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

Spectral interlocutions and the politics of unfinished: Buddhism, haunting, and memory in Karunatilaka's <i>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</i>. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Humphry NM, I A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
wiley   +1 more source

White Adultocene. Rethinking modernity through figures of the Child in the history of racial oppression. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Mock C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Mobilities, migration, and digital humanities. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Chaudhuri M, Chattopadhyay C, Menon N, Arthur PL, Kenderdine S, Rischard M, Shanmugapriya T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Law as a technology of exclusion: the legal construction of racialized and gendered work relations through the case study of international labour law in the first half of the twentieth century

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the role of labour law in processes of racialization and gendering of work. It argues that labour law not only protects certain forms of work (law as a protective mechanism), but also systematically excludes other forms of work, especially those performed by racialized and gendered individuals (law as a technology of ...
JULIETA LOBATO
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening health research capacity for postgraduate trainees: an indigenous realist evaluation of the 'African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence' programme. [PDF]

Health Policy Plan
Mutua MN, Nakidde C, Mukumbang FC.
europepmc   +1 more source